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Tuesday, 4 June 2002

David Hyatt, lead developer on the Chimera web browser project, has posted an interesting explanation on the complexity of marrying the gecko rendering engine (the guts that power Mozilla, Netscape, and now Chimera) to the Cocoa UI that makes it look so incredible. He also explains why the name Chimera was chosen. Slightly technical but very interesting if you're into this sort of thing. [Mac Net Journal] 10:16:41 PM  comment []      In case you didn't know JBoss.org now uses SiteMesh for all it's presentation (the skins, the printable page decorator, page feedback link etc). w00! 10:06:59 AM  comment []      Flash critic to coach Macromedia - so Jakob Nielsen will be coaching Macromedia now? Interesting. How exactly will he make bookmarks work in Flash? 1:43:09 AM  comment []